San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-08
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts OF the Globe, Con-
densed and Boiled Down.

1De petition nOOu IN state legislature
10 at full tide.
The Charleston, w. w., deadlock on
senator continues.
South Boston house railway is tied up,
less hours wanted.
Indianapolis was slightly shaken by
earthquake Sunday.
New Orleans is already beginning to
I'LL for the carnival.
There were four inches of snow in
Frisco, Saturday morning.
Beeville shipped 80 carloads OF cattle
In good condition, Saturday.
st. Louis had q slight earthquake
shock early Sunday morning.
Valuable beds OF iron ore have been
discovered at Duck Hill, Miss.
The second OF the series OF Boston ex-
cursionists Is In New Orleans.
Rain is generally reported, In greater
or less quantities, all over Texas.
L. o. Graves, mugwump republican,
10 spoken OF as JOrdan's successor.
st. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern
road declares per cent dividend.
The st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas is
meditating construction to Fort Worth.
The French left will grant priority to
Bourlanger's military organization bill.
The contracts are signed for an iron
bridge over the Rio Grande at Eagle
Pass.
Two hundred men In Jersey City stove
works quit work because scab coal is
used.
william and Alice Beckwit the Eng
lIsh swimmers, will soon come to New
York.
Surgeon General Hammond favors re-
moyal Of quarantine station from Ship
Island.
The land lobby Is In Austin In force,
and will be heard from before the ses-
sion closes.
Miss Elizabeth Dengenb rech ut. Of Belle
vile, patient at the insane asylum, COM
mits suicide.
Steel rails for 200 miles OF the Mexi-
can international are expected daily at
Eagle Pass.
The bill before the legislature to pre-
vent drunkenness fines the drunkards
500. Pass 1t.
The bicycle lantern parade at New
Orleans during Mardi Gras will be the
largest yet In line.
Parish, financial agent state peniten-
tiaries. draws 1874, 900 for deficiencies in
monthly expenses.
Manning emphatically denies his re-
ported resignation and says he Is going
TO stick TO Washington.
Corpus Christi Is to have an artesian
we'll, a hotel and u pavilion. Contract
for the we'll has been let.
Grand encampment l.. o. o. F. OF
Texas, in session at Austin, elect j. w.
Kincaid grand patriarch.
Pine lands in Sabine parish Louisiana,
worth 10 cents an acre two years ago, are
selling readily at 81 an acre.
Brandon Bros, business partners at
Forrest City, Ark, got into a dispute
and John shot Richard dead.
The large cotton warehouse Of Charles
Martin, OF Little Rock, burned, with 600
bales Of cotton. Loss $4,000.
Willie DAVIDSON, aged 16, st. Louis,
shot his best girl, aged 10, for going
sleighing with another fellow.
House passes bill giving right Of way
to Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska rail-
way through Indian Territory.
u. s. senate passes q bill to encourage
the manufacture Of steel for modern ma
val ordnance, armor, shafting, etc.
The match tor G4OO and the sculling
championship Of England won by Blu
bear over Perkins, on Tyne course.
A committee Of investigation from st.
Stephens parish justify Father Nc
Glynn's acts and the parish will support
him.
A Mobile fire in wholesale drug
house toppled the walls over on Nc
Donald's liquor store, and killed the
proprietor.
Houston and Texas Central will carry
passengers to New Orleans Msrdi Gras
for one round fare, limited. Sales COM
mence on the 10th.
The arrest Of parties, suspected Of
completely In the rescue Of prisoner on
the Plttsburg & Fort Wayne road, oon-
tinues. No definite results reached.
Subterrisnean explosion: in the center
Of the Russian petroleum fields and the
opening OF a volcano throwing fire and
mud to height Of $50 feet, have greatly
alarmed the people.
Judge Lazarus, OF the civil district
court Of New Orleans, has been found
guilty OF gross official misconduct and
malfeasanoe, after a sensational trial
lasting some weeks.
The roads, forming the Texas Traffic
association, are not having q very Sc
rene time OF Ii. Great dissatisfaction ex-
lists among the members Of the pool and
a rupture is threatened.
Abilene real estate owners are very
generally paying 10 per cent.on real and
q per cent. on personal property to Sc
cure the extension of the Gulf, Colorado
81 Santa Fe to that point.
A youthful mail thief, IA years old,
after getting In his work at Marion, Ky =,
took in the mail car between Texarkana
and Sherman and got away with two
registered letters. He is in jail at Dallas.
John Hesdman, Episcopal rector Of
Chicago, Is forced to resign. He is
charged with lying, drunkenness, mis-
appropriation ofchurch funds, lie wdness,
and all the other ms Of the decalogue.
DIR. Windthorst, leader OF Catholic
party in the reiohstag, does not favor
the pope's suggestion, that the center
accept the septenate military bill as .
means Of securing Improvement of re-
lations between Bsmark and the
papacy.
Dille,the st. Louis wife murdered has
recovered from his attempt at suicide
and will be tried for murder. He claims
that il was mutual understanding be-
tween them that he should cut his wife's
throat and then his own.
A family feud near DeKalb results in
the death Of j. G. White and his two
naDhews and the killing of Edward